artassociates amsterdam
agency for illustrated animations & stills
Jazzy diptych based on the famous, and notorious, old jazzclub ‘Mephisto Palace’. In collaboration with Joren Joshua. Dimensions: 17 x 10 m and 15 x 3,5 m.
Wallpainting for Rural Urban Arts Festival in Mustvee, Estonia.
Murals, menu’s etc. for two locations, Amsterdam Noord and Amstelveen. Art direction by Tiedo Dieke/DSGND.
Hand lettering logo for a self promotional project.
Personal project in progress – Drop caps decorated with caricatures of bands or musicians with their respective initial.
Mural for Mindpark / Think Open Space, a co-working space in Helsingborg, Sweden. In collaboration with Joren Joshua, curated by Kulturhotellet.
Murals of Aberdeen Angus cattle and Bonte Bentheimer pigs, on location In Cadier en Keer, Limburg. Art direction: Viastory.com – Maarten Kuypers.
Mural for Artstreet HBG festival in Helsingborg, Sweden.
New series for DSW health insurance.
Gin & Tonic
Corporate website, brochures etc.
Series about working from home with little kids.
Thanks to Gemeente Helmond, Zuidlijn, and Stichting Carat.
Mural painted for Hall&Partners as part of the Marketing research event Quirk’s at InterContinental London – The O2
Hand lettering illustration as a Christmas campaign key visual for Brussels’ public transport system.
Part of the Viewpoints Exhibition 2020 highlighting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. My mural was on the theme of Equality.
Mural for KLM Airlines’ 75 anniversary of their Amsterdam – Lisbon connection. Painted in downtown Lisbon with Portuguese artist AkaCorleone.
Annual salon invitation by PS Design Consultants.
Series for Algemeen Dagblad about holiday memories of Dutch writers in their home country.
Series of doggy illustrations for Dogs Magazine.
The near future of France, explored for an exhibition by Google France and tech magazine Usbek&Rica.
Finnish fin-tech company Greenstep published a survey on the ideal workplace in their magazine, illustrated by Aart-Jan.
Pitch-work for a packaging project that didn’t happen in the end.
Series of artworks for Gemeente Eindhoven. These images aim to show dynamic processes and their aesthetics in the High Tech Industry, which is established in the surroundings.
4 Large murals at the new Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mural done near the centre of Eindhoven. It’s visible when entering the city from the south.
AMC Children’s Hospital
CD booklet.
Book “You and me and all the beauty around us”.
Book & marble game.
Read & play…
Cover Portugal.
Hong Kong.
Various projects.
Character and lettering illustration.
These images were created as an email sign-off in autumn.
French food in vintage style building up the Eiffel tower.
Five food groups as silhouettes in vintage style.
Double page spread of a Children’s book in progress, about how animals go to bed. (The octopus illustration has won a Runner-up award at Creative Quarterly No.55).
Vintage poster series for a fictitious oddity show with very extraordinary artists. („The Duckordion“ has won a Honorable Mention at 3×3 ProShow No.13 and was published in Lürzer’s Archive „200 Best Illustrators Worldwide 2018/19“).
Picturing the hypocrisy of our affluent society during Christmas time.
Pattern of funny people freaking out while shopping. (This illustration is a winner at Creative Quarterly No.59).
Together with London based agency Bread Collective, Aart-Jan did the branding for Welsh festival GreenMan 2017.
Mural for Visual Playgrounds, a design festival in Bucharest, Romania.
Mural for Blind Walls gallery Breda during the Graphic Design Festival.
A self-initiated project starring a couple of my favorite BMW cars. The BMW X-3 in the present, and the BMW Vision M NEXT 1 in the future.
Together with MOAM, this booklet was made for the yearly art exhibition taking place at Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam.
A selection of images for the New York Times parenting section.